Emmanuelle Pellet - Full moon party

Emmanuelle Pellet - Full moon party
Acrylic painting - Original signed - 2014
Height: 34 cm Width: 21 cm

About the work:

A solemn feminine figure, draped in a pale pink dress and cloak, stands at the edge of a shore, her face lifted toward a twilight sky streaked with yellow, blue and pearlescent clouds. An amber moon watches from the top of the painting — a discreet presence that gives the work its title. On its right, tethered by a green cord, a reptilian creature with a mouth bristling with teeth and a piercing blue eye accompanies it, docile despite its prehistoric appearance. The lady holds in her hand a small yellow basket or bucket, an incongruous detail that anchors the scene in an enigmatic narration, between fairy tale and dream vision. A play of shadow subtly glides from patches of black distorted motifs that reinforce the tension.

This work combines the vocabulary of classical narrative painting — drapery, atmospheric chiaroscuro, a quasi-sacral figure — with a decidedly offbeat iconography. The juxtaposition of timeless elegance and a fantastical bestiary creates a poetic tension: that of a world where the marvelous and the strange coexist without clash. The gaze toward the sky, the moon in the background, and the presence of the animal as guardian or familiar evoke an open allegory, leaving to each spectator the task of weaving its narrative.

About the artist:

Art historian by training, Emmanuelle Pellet studied at the École du Louvre and then at the Sorbonne before being awarded the Agrégation in Visual Arts (3rd place). After several years of teaching, she joined the Louvre Museum as head of educational outreach.
Her works have been exhibited in galleries in Paris, London, Singapore and Mauritius. They have been the subject of numerous publications and are today in private collections in Europe, North America, Asia and the Indian Ocean.